From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL?
Date: 06 Jun 2002 00:54:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hekhgwvo.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFD375D.9080302@bothner.com>
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
[ extending the license exception of Guile to GMP ]
> Stallman (and Torbjörn) may be favorably inclined to such as
> exception; as Guile maintainer I think you should at least bring up
> the issue with RMS.
Yes, I will. I'll wait a bit to see whether any other arguments
surface in favor of weakening the license of GMP.
> > What about creating a library that is reasonably compatible to GMP but
> > is simple minded and comes with a very unrestrictive license. It's
> > sole purpose would be to make use of the permissive license of
> > libguile (and of libgcj, if I understand your intention right).
>
> Somebody wrote such a library. Some years ago there were problems
> with some use of GMP for encryption. I don't remember the details,
> but part of the problem was that since they were linking explicitly
> against the GMP API, the FSF argued they were effectivly linking
> with the GMP, even if they were separate. That was resolved by
> somebody writing an API-compatible very of GMP.
Yes, I thought I remembered something like that but couldn't
immediately find more details. If such a library exists, we are
settled and can use GMP exclusively, no? Anyone wanting to invoke the
exception in Guile's license can use the unrestricted substitute-GMP,
right?
Do you know more about this library? Where could I find it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-05 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 19:36 What if Guile changed its license to be LGPL? Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 20:11 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-04 21:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 21:55 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-05 7:05 ` tomas
2002-06-05 22:54 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2002-06-05 23:08 ` Per Bothner
2002-06-05 23:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-06 12:33 ` Panagiotis Vossos
2002-06-05 23:07 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-04 21:59 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-05 15:45 ` Neil Jerram
2002-06-05 22:45 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-06-06 2:36 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-06 2:52 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-06-05 21:57 ` Dale P. Smith
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